{"id":9902,"date":"2015-04-01T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9902"},"modified":"2015-04-01T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T15:58:06","slug":"uk-wide-implications-of-the-sharing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9902","title":{"rendered":"UK wide implications of the sharing economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The online accommodation sharing portal \u2018Airbnb\u2019 has welcomed new proposals that allow London residents to join the rest of the UK in opening up their homes for visitors for up to 90 days a year without first applying for planning permission (previously advertising your home on such a site may have attracted fines under the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1973).<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Airbnb writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>The new law makes the UK a leader in the sharing economy, adding London to the growing list of cities across the world implementing progressive laws that embrace home sharing, including Paris and Amsterdam<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicy.airbnb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Airbnb-London-legislation-press-release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">View the full Airbnb press release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/measures-to-boost-sharing-economy-in-london\" target=\"_blank\">View the DCLG news release on the changes to legislation in London\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online accommodation sharing portal \u2018Airbnb\u2019 has welcomed new proposals that allow London residents to join the rest of the UK in opening up their homes for visitors for up to 90 days a year without first applying for planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9903,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions\/9903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}